Tens of thousands of Muslim minority Rohingya are feared to be caught in fighting in western Myanmar, as a powerful armed ethnic group bears down on junta positions in a coastal town on the country’s border with Bangladesh.The Arakan Army (AA), which is fighting for autonomy for Myanmar’s Rakhine region,Continue Reading
COX’S BAZAR: At least three Rohingya refugees were killed, and seven others injured following a clash between rival militant groups struggling for control over relief camps in Bangladesh.Bangladesh shelters one million members of the stateless and persecuted Muslim community, the majority of whom arrived after a severe military crackdown inContinue Reading
PAUKTAW: Gutted buildings, vacant windows and blocks bombed to rubble show the price paid by the western Myanmar town of Pauktaw for victory against the junta in the country’s civil war.Fighters from the Arakan Army (AA) ethnic minority armed group took control of the fishing port of 20,000 people inContinue Reading
YANGON: More than 1,000 people lined up at the Thai embassy in Yangon on Friday as young people sought to leave Myanmar after the junta said it would impose military service.The military said last weekend it would enforce a law allowing it to call up all men aged 18-35 andContinue Reading
YANGON: Soldiers patrolled the deserted streets of Myanmar’s largest city Thursday, three years after a coup ended a short-lived experiment with democracy and as the embattled junta faces growing challenges to its rule. Streets and markets in commercial hub Yangon were largely empty, AFP reporters said, as opponents of theContinue Reading
BANDA ACEH: Students in Indonesia‘s Aceh province rallied on Wednesday, demanding the government drive away Rohingya refugees who have been arriving by sea in growing numbers. The protest came as police named more suspects in human trafficking of refugees. Over 1,500 Rohingya – who fled violent attacks in Myanmar toContinue Reading
BIREUEN: Three boats filled with more than 500 Rohingya refugees landed in Indonesia’s westernmost province on Sunday, a UN agency said, in one of the biggest arrivals since Myanmar launched a military crackdown on the minority group in 2017.The mostly Muslim Rohingya are heavily persecuted in Myanmar, and thousands riskContinue Reading
YANGON: At least 25 people are missing after a landslide at an unregulated jade mine in a remote region of Myanmar, rescue workers said Monday. The incident on Sunday outside northern Kachin’s Hpakant township — near where hundreds of miners were entombed in a landslide in 2020 — comes daysContinue Reading
YANGON: Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be pardoned for five of the numerous offences for which she was jailed for a total of 33 years, state media reported on Tuesday. The Nobel Laureate, who last week moved from prison to house arrest in the capital, Naypyitaw, hasContinue Reading
Myanmar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned the joint statement by US President Joe Biden and Indian PM Narendra Modi on the “deteriorating situation” in the Southeast Asian nation, The Irrawaddy reported. Myanmar, which shares a 1,600km border with India’s Northeast, has been witnessing a civil war since the 2021Continue Reading